– The United States, a compulsory passage under conditions for the Swiss
According to several voices, American university golf has become a necessity in the direction of the benchmark professional circuit, on which no Swiss is established. The Federation tempers.
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Jérôme Reynard , Crans-Montana
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The Haut-Valaisan Max Schliesing has been playing for three years in the United States, under the colors of the University of Houston-Victoria. For him, it is clear that this is the best way to learn to live with constant pressure.
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TO Crans-Montana, the subject comes up on the table almost every year. But what do the Swiss lack to find a place on the European Tour? The last Swiss player to have fully established himself on the benchmark professional circuit of the Old Continent remains Julien Clement. It was in 2003 and 2004. It is starting to date.
a rwith regard to countries such as Austria or Belgium, which have several representatives at the top of the basket on the Tour, germinate this question: why them and not Switzerland?
A priori, the limites naturalthes (breeding ground, culture, mentality, structures…) Are of the same ilk. «There is an element of success, comments the Belgian routinier Nicolas Colsaerts (38years). Afterwards, I don’t know if it’s something the Swiss do, but the university in IT’SUnited States, it has become an almost obligatory passage today.»